London has been battered by 50mph winds that have felled trees and caused travel chaos. Powerful gusts swept across the capital as the Met Office issued a yellow "be aware" weather alert for most of the country.

He is famously Welsh, but the battle over whether Tom Jones should or should not sing in Tel Aviv in October is raging in Britain and the US. The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign urging Jones to cancel his performance has already been signed online by more than 1,000 UK internet users.